Edna Ferber

Edna Ferber

(1885–1968) novelist United States

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Edna Ferber (1885–1968) was a United States novelist, known for Personality Plus|Saratoga Trunk|So Big|Cimarron|Show Boat|American Beauty|Come and Get It|Our Mrs. McChesney.

About Edna Ferber

Edna Ferber was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), Show Boat, Cimarron, Giant and Ice Palace (1958), which also received a film adaptation in 1960. She helped adapt her short story "Old Man Minick", published in 1922, into a play (Minick) and it was thrice adapted to film, in 1925 as the silent film Welcome Home, in 1932 as The Expert, and in 1939 as No Place to Go.

Known for:

Personality Plus|Saratoga Trunk|So Big|Cimarron|Show Boat|American Beauty|Come and Get It|Our Mrs. McChesney

Notable works:

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Awards:

Michigan Women's Hall of Fame|Pulitzer Prize for the Novel|Distinguished Americans series

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